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I think we tend to overestimate how much time we have in this life. But how could we not when the world is designed that way. We are fed into the idea that we will all make it to old age. So we delay things. We plan for the future like we are certain we will actually be there to live it. I am guilty of this too, I won’t lie. We tend to forget as humans how much time is actually promised to us. We could die at any given moment. And yet still somehow, we still keep saving things for later like later belongs to us. But I also think that's the beauty of life. We are just another species of animal living here until we die. So I think it's our duty to make the most of the time we have. The question isn’t, “What's the meaning of life?” more so, “How do we create a meaningful life when life is inherently meaningless?” That’s why for the longest I never really understood why people are so comfortable living in mediocrity. In a sense how will you be able to create a meaningful life if you're comfortable? Never grow, never mature, never be a better person than you were yesterday. The human being who lacks purpose gets distracted by any pleasure. Religious or not, the soul needs a why. I think where people tend to lack is saying “I’m scared” or saying “I want to but…” But did you truly try? Could you truthfully look back at yourself and say, “ I gave it my all” Action kills fear. You gain absolutely NOTHING in doubting. Not a thing. Believe in yourself. Always. Forever. A negative mind will never offer you a positive life. It's strange to see how people are able to believe in things they’ve never seen, yet struggle to believe in themselves. Watching a youtube video on self improvement for the betterment of yourself will bring meaningful change to your life. Or reading articles or listening to a podcast. It’s easy to watch a guy explain how to change your life in 30 days. But of those hours you'll never get back if you never implement that information. A person is willing to change when they want to. Watch and listen and feed your brain with all the information you want, it means nothing without action. Any lesson you refuse to learn will repeat endlessly until you change. Read that again. For those who want to be great to create a meaningful life, what is stopping you? If you want to be something, the time is now, take action or you will waste your potential.

Most of y'all probably didn't even read all of that, and truly from the bottom of my heart that’s on you. Most of yall’s attention spans are so fried that you can’t even read shit anymore. Some of yall will actually take in account what I said, others will think I'm crazy for talking like this. If you don’t change something, life will look the same next year. I find it hard to believe that most of the people reading what I wrote, truly accomplished their goals they set at the beginning of this year. Thats why new years resolutions are so stupid because they wait for later, but later we die. If you want to change, it's now. But I'm here to tell y'all change is possible. Change is fucking possible when you stop making excuses and truly have the desire to be better.

Time. What a crazy thing. Remember when summer break felt like it would last forever? Now a whole year disappears and you barely notice. We spend our whole lives chasing time, yet somehow it always manages to escape us. We wish it away when we’re bored, beg for more when we’re happy, and desperately try to turn it back when things go wrong. Time heals wounds, but it also creates them. It gives us memories, then slowly takes away the people we made them with. The richest man in the world cannot buy yesterday, and the poorest man still has tomorrow. Perhaps the strangest thing about time is that we never truly appreciate it until it’s already gone forever. We only get one of these lives. We grasp the truth that life isn’t a practice for something better, but we desperately wish that we’d figured that out several years sooner. The trick is not to try to deny or eradicate our regrets, but not to let them stop you from seizing the moment either. Refusing to fully live today because you regret not living enough in the past is just as foolish as putting off living because you think you'll do it better in the future. Don't let regrets about yesterday or expectations for tomorrow stop you from living today. We humans tend to forget that all we have is today. We don’t have yesterday because it’s gone and cannot be reversed. And we don’t have tomorrow because it’s not guaranteed. I said the poorest man has tomorrow, but even that isn't promised. We have to recognize that the past is past, and we won’t have any future left if we don't live today. In reality, there’s nowhere else to be. Because now is all you'll ever get.

There are things we think, say, and do every day that act like time is unlimited. Small things that don't feel like we’re wasting our time, but are. Like I have said before, later isn’t promised. Think: “I’ve got time.” “I’m not ready yet.” “When I’m older.” We think these things like we have the time to do them later. But let's be honest, that’s not reality. Say: “I’ll call them later.” “I’ll start Monday.” “Next year.” We say these things, but do we really do them? How long until we go back to our old habits after starting them? Do: doom scrolling, staying comfortable, putting off the hard conversation, rushing through moments with people you love. Each one feels small on its own, but they add up to years.

From me, I myself know this, because I’ve gone through it. There were things people told me years ago that I completely ignored. Why? Because I thought I knew better. And at that time, their words sounded like background noise. Not as a thing to pay attention to. Something I may understand later but didn't really care about hearing then. And eventually there comes a point for everyone where life hits you. And you notice it more than you have noticed before. It puts you in a realization we truly only get one of these lives. For me, I made my own mistakes, experienced certain situations, and wished I would’ve done things sooner. Then I got to thinking, suddenly, those same words started making sense in a way they never could have before. I find it weird but also human how advice can sound completely pointless until you experience the exact situation someone was warning you about. Ring a bell? Some people reading this don’t relate, at all. Some reading this will have realized that they’re not the only one that thinks this way. I think this too, more than often. Sometimes growing isn’t learning something completely new. Sometimes it’s finally understanding something you were already told. And honestly, I think that’s one of the strangest parts of becoming older, realizing that some of the answers you spent years looking for were sitting in front of you the whole time. The advice you’re brushing off right now might be the answer you go searching for years from now. And by then, that’s time you’ll never get back.